…Marion Montgomery, scholar, critic, and award-winning poet and novelist, died last week at the age of eighty-six. A prolific author, he published more than twenty books during his long career, including a monumental three-volume cultural critique, ‘The Prophetic Poet and the Popular Spirit.’ He also wrote such memorably titled works as ‘With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party,’ ‘Hillbilly Thomist,’ and ‘Why Poe Drank Liquor.’…(more)